I'm interested in passenger trains, and an Amtrak modern diesel would be nice. But only American Models makes passenger cars, although they're the Superliner ones. Lionel could easily simply paint the Flyer streamlined ones in Amtrak colors and they would be just fine as the "heritage" fleet...
I know here locally Amtrak does it with the Wolverine from Detroit to Chicago. They have a powered unit on both ends of the train or a power unit on one end and a Cabbage unit on the other. Would this be something that was done in the 1950's when diesels frist startting pulling ...
A close look atan inventory of Amtrak rolling stocklooks like an old used carriage auction block. Check out thefancy Amtrak advertising videospromising sleek, fast locomotives in the northeast corridor of the country, the most reliable profit center. Don’t wait in line or online for a ticket...
There is an active Amtrak station, Lapeer Grain, and the Lapeer Industrial RR (1.34 miles of track) serving small local industries. Fortunately, all three of these are located in very close proximity to each other and as such are extremely well suited for modeling. Although the tracks are ...